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GaTech is a great school for aerospace engineering. Very tough school though, there are a lot of intelligent students here so expect to work hard if you get here. Competitive, great location, not so great girl to guy ratio, good campus, rigorous courses that will prepare you for anything and tons of research opportunities as well as a great co-op program.

I would be careful about Embry Riddle. I remember seeing some job placement data that was not very impressive. Its rankings are very high so I was surprised when I saw the low numbers. The starting salaries were low and the percent of students who got jobs was low compared to other top schools. I'm not sure about the reason for the low numbers. Maybe the education there is a little closer to a vocational school or something than a top school where graduates are more well rounded? Anyways, I would check into that a little more if you're gonna think about Embry Riddle.

The subject of ERAU comes up over and over. It is one the best schools for aeronautical science (think pilot training). Its aerospace engineering program is not on the same level. US News (incorrectly) lumps all this stuff together which distorts the rankings.

Washington has a quality program. The thing is, Boeing is a huge, national company, and as such, they spread their support dollars around to all the top aerospace schools so UW, from what I have seen, doesn't get the kind of support that you might imagine they would. They still have a close relationship with Boeing, though.

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